MCP Server: INSEE French Statistics for AI Agents

MCP server with 6 tools to query official INSEE French statistics (macro time series, inflation, population, geo codes). HTTP-only, no API key. $0.01 per tool-call.

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What is the MCP Server: INSEE actor?

MCP Server: INSEE is an Apify-hosted Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that gives AI agents structured access to official French statistics published by INSEE (Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques) and the French government geo registry. It exposes 6 callable tools over the standard MCP input contract (mode, tool_name, arguments), so any MCP-compatible client — Claude, Cursor, Continue, or a custom LangChain/LlamaIndex agent — can fetch French macroeconomic and demographic data without writing a single SDMX parser.

The actor is backed by two free, official, no-authentication HTTP APIs: the INSEE BDM SDMX web service (bdm.insee.fr/series/sdmx) for macroeconomic time series and the French government geo API (geo.api.gouv.fr) for communes, departments and regions. There is no API key to manage, no OAuth flow, and no scraping — only stable government endpoints. That makes MCP Server: INSEE reliable for unattended agent workflows.

Tools available

• search_indicators — search INSEE statistics by keyword (inflation, unemployment, GDP, wages, population). Returns ready-to-use idbanks for headline indicators plus matching INSEE theme catalogs.
• get_series — fetch any INSEE BDM macro time series by idbank. Returns series metadata + observations (period, value), with optional since and limit.
• population_by_area — population for a French area by INSEE code: a commune (5 digits) returns its population; a department or region returns aggregated population and commune count.
• local_stats — local profile for a commune by INSEE code: population, area in km², density, postal codes, intercommunality (EPCI), department and region.
• inflation_index — French consumer price index (CPI): latest value, full history, and computed year-on-year inflation %.
• geo_codes — resolve French place names to INSEE codes (and codes back to names) for communes, departments and regions.
• list_tools — free discovery endpoint that returns the full tool catalog (no charge).

Use cases

• French macro analysis for AI agents — let an agent pull inflation, unemployment or GDP series from INSEE on demand and reason over the numbers.
• Market & territory research — resolve a city or department to its INSEE code, then fetch its population and local statistics in the same agent run.
• Economic dashboards & RAG — feed up-to-date French CPI and labour-market series into a retrieval pipeline or a reporting agent.
• Lead enrichment — augment a French company or address dataset with the demographics of its commune, department or region.
• Automated monitoring — schedule an agent to track the latest CPI print and year-on-year inflation each month.

Input

{
  "mode": "call_tool",
  "tool_name": "inflation_index",
  "arguments": {}
}

More examples:

{ "mode": "call_tool", "tool_name": "search_indicators", "arguments": { "query": "unemployment" } }
{ "mode": "call_tool", "tool_name": "get_series", "arguments": { "idbank": "001688527", "since": "2015" } }
{ "mode": "call_tool", "tool_name": "geo_codes", "arguments": { "name": "Lyon" } }
{ "mode": "call_tool", "tool_name": "population_by_area", "arguments": { "code": "69123" } }

For discovery: {"mode": "list_tools"} (free, no charge).

Pricing

PAY_PER_EVENT — $0.01 per tool-call (= $10.00 per 1,000 calls). The list_tools discovery mode is free. INSEE and geo.api.gouv.fr are free official APIs, so MCP Server: INSEE has no upstream data cost.

Author

dltik

License

MIT